The typical enterprise requires days or weeks to deploy system patches.

FireBreak antiworm intrusion suppression can help you bridge The Patch Gap.

You can be instantly alerted to a worm outbreak on your network, two days before antivirus definitions area available. FireBreak can help you bridge The Patch Gap.

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The Patch Gap and the Zero Day Worm

The most damaging threat on the enterprise network today is the
Zero Day Worm.
Arriving the same day as vulnerability is announced or discovered by a vendor, and sometimes before a vendor-supplied patch is available, Zero Day worms can spread like wildfire on the internet and corporate networks alike.

Every new buffer overflow exploit brings with it the potential for a new worm. These defects in the code exist for weeks, months, and sometimes years in software products before they are discovered by customers, vendors, or security researchers. Some of them are certainly discovered by crackers first.

The Patch Gap and the typical Worm

But worms don't need to arrive within a day of defect discovery to cause massive damage on corporate networks. Most modern worms probe for several defects, and even a single year-old defect correction might be accidentally rolled-back by a newer system patch, only to be discovered by a worm.

Since FireBreak AntiWorm doesn't need definition files to detect worm activity, it can detect and impede Zero Day worms. It doesn't care what vulnerability a worm is probing for, and it detects old worms just as effectively as new ones.